Barnewall, Robert, styled twelfth Baron Trimleston (c. 1704–1779), landowner and Roman Catholic activist, was the eldest son of John Barnewall, styled eleventh Baron Trimleston (1672–1746), and his wife, Mary, or Margaret (d. 1771), daughter and heir of Sir John Barnewall. Descended from an Anglo-Norman family whose estates in the counties of ...
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Barnewall, Robert, styled twelfth Baron Trimleston (c. 1704–1779), landowner and Roman Catholic activist
Gerard O'Brien
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Blount, Martha (1690–1763)
Maker: Charles Jervas
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Martha Blount (1690–1763) by Charles Jervas, 1716 [Blount sisters [left to right]: and Teresa Blount (1688–1759)] reproduced by permission of the Mapledurham Trust. Photograph: Photographic Survey, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
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Blount, Martha (1690–1763), Roman Catholic gentlewoman
Valerie Rumbold
Blount, Martha (1690–1763), Roman Catholic gentlewoman, was born on 15 June 1690 at the family estate of Mapledurham, Berkshire, the third child (but second eldest surviving) of six born to Lister Blount (1654–1710) and his wife, Martha (d. 1743), daughter of Anthony Englefield...
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Copley, Thomas (1532–1584), landowner and Roman Catholic exile
Michael A. R. Graves
Copley, Thomas (1532–1584), landowner and Roman Catholic exile, was born between February and May 1532, eldest son of Sir Roger Copley (d. 1549), landowner and member of the Mercers' Company, and his second wife, Elizabeth (d. 1559/60), daughter of Sir William Shelley...
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Ealhmund [St Ealhmund] (d. 800), prince and martyr
David Rollason
Ealhmund [St Ealhmund] (d. 800), prince and martyr, is the subject of a passio (account of martyrdom) preserved only in the fourteenth-century manuscript in the Gotha Forschungsbibliothek (MS I.81). This text, which is utterly unreliable, presents him as the son of Aldfrith, king of Northumbria...
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Englefield, Sir Francis (1522–1596), courtier and Roman Catholic exile
A. J. Loomie
Englefield, Sir Francis (1522–1596), courtier and Roman Catholic exile, was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Englefield (1488–1537) of Englefield, Berkshire, and Elizabeth Throckmorton (d. 1543) of Coughton, Warwickshire. His grandfather Sir Thomas Englefield (1455–1514) was an adviser to the young Henry VIII...
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Hales, Sir Edward, third baronet and Jacobite first earl of Tenterden (1645–1695), courtier and Roman Catholic convert
Paul Hopkins
Hales, Sir Edward, third baronet and Jacobite first earl of Tenterden (1645–1695), courtier and Roman Catholic convert, was born on 28 September 1645, the eldest son (of four) of Sir Edward Hales, second baronet (1626–1683/4), of Tunstall Place, Kent, and his wife, Anne (...
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Howard [née Dacre], Anne, countess of Arundel (1557–1630), noblewoman and priest harbourer
Nancy Pollard Brown
Howard [née Dacre], Anne, countess of Arundel (1557–1630), noblewoman and priest harbourer, was born in Carlisle on 1 March 1557, the eldest daughter of Thomas Dacre, fourth Lord Dacre of Gilsland (1526?–1566), and his second wife, Elizabeth (d. 1567), daughter of ...
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Howard [Dacre], Anne, countess of Arundel (1557–1630)
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Anne Howard, countess of Arundel (1557–1630) by Wenceslaus Hollar (after Lucas Vorsterman, c. 1626) © Copyright The British Museum
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Petre family (per. 1633–1801), Roman Catholic nobility
Robert G. E. Wood
Petre family (per. 1633–1801), Roman Catholic nobility, in the eighteenth century were owners of the most extensive estates in Essex and were among the leaders of English Roman Catholic society, intermarrying with most other similar families. A succession of minor heirs gave dowagers (usually occupying the family homes at ...
